Multiple identities-have you tried it on BE or other forums?
Mar 17th 2012, 10:40 pm
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Re: Multiple identities-have you tried it on BE or other forums?
Oh yes it can, quite easily too! 
If you and I made a list of the suspects the lists would no doubt be the same!
If you and I made a list of the suspects the lists would no doubt be the same!
Personally I couldn't be bothered with it!
I'm me here... and one is quite enough (I'm sure a few would agree), I'm also me elsewhere, sometimes using this name and sometimes not, but there is only ever one of me.
I'm me here... and one is quite enough (I'm sure a few would agree), I'm also me elsewhere, sometimes using this name and sometimes not, but there is only ever one of me.
Mar 17th 2012, 11:18 pm
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Mar 17th 2012, 11:26 pm
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Re: Multiple identities-have you tried it on BE or other forums?
There's lots of innuendo here about who has multiple identities, personally I don't have a clue if anyone has, so can you name names?
Exactly the same as you, and unless you are banned, I can't see any point in it. I have heard of people with multiple identities answering themselves in forums, but never had any personal experience of it, is it an urban myth? I think people are possibly imagining things that aren't there.
Exactly the same as you, and unless you are banned, I can't see any point in it. I have heard of people with multiple identities answering themselves in forums, but never had any personal experience of it, is it an urban myth? I think people are possibly imagining things that aren't there.
usually these aren't smart enough to hide IPs & get very easily caughtthere was one forum where half the posters were reputedly alter-egos of the owner & various mods - I don't know if it was true - but the posting style of an awful lot of members there was remarkably similar
Mar 17th 2012, 11:29 pm
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Re: Multiple identities-have you tried it on BE or other forums?
Mar 17th 2012, 11:37 pm
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Re: Multiple identities-have you tried it on BE or other forums?
I've seen it elsewhere & suspected it here - usually it's a new poster with 'can anyone recommend............? & then a little while later another new poster amazingly recommends exactly that in exactly that town' usually these aren't smart enough to hide IPs & get very easily caught
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usually these aren't smart enough to hide IPs & get very easily caught:
Mar 17th 2012, 11:39 pm
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Mar 17th 2012, 11:49 pm
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Re: Multiple identities-have you tried it on BE or other forums?
I can see that people might have popped in to suggest their own place etc, but it doesn't happen a lot, does it? I must confess to not reading too many of the various threads, but haven't seen a lot of it. Seen lots of instances where people take the trouble to join and then recommend something they have an interest in in their very first post. I guess as a mod, you see more of it than the rest of us, I'm too trusting! 
Mar 18th 2012, 12:31 am
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Mar 18th 2012, 2:54 am
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Re: Multiple identities-have you tried it on BE or other forums?
I can see that people might have popped in to suggest their own place etc, but it doesn't happen a lot, does it? I must confess to not reading too many of the various threads, but haven't seen a lot of it. Seen lots of instances where people take the trouble to join and then recommend something they have an interest in in their very first post. I guess as a mod, you see more of it than the rest of us, I'm too trusting!
Mar 18th 2012, 2:58 am
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Re: Multiple identities-have you tried it on BE or other forums?
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Mar 18th 2012, 3:17 am
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Re: Multiple identities-have you tried it on BE or other forums?
You might want to suggest he improves his vetting and approves first post by all new registrants.
Mar 18th 2012, 4:53 am
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Re: Multiple identities-have you tried it on BE or other forums?
Just a question about multiplr identities, have you ever tried to do it and been caught? 
Have you done it and not been caught?
Would yo ever bother to try?
Or like me, is 1 virtual persona enough?
What do you think about the people that try to fool the mods?
I personally think it is a waste of time, better to be a whole than 2 halves.
Have you done it and not been caught?
Would yo ever bother to try?
Or like me, is 1 virtual persona enough?
What do you think about the people that try to fool the mods?
I personally think it is a waste of time, better to be a whole than 2 halves.
Get a bit annoyed with them, when I get caught out just trying to be helpful thou
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Mar 18th 2012, 8:33 am
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Re: Multiple identities-have you tried it on BE or other forums?
I don't suppose it's a big deal and I enjoy a laugh as well as the next man, but I get annoyed with myself for falling for it. They're not that easy to spot if you're not looking for it.
As to their motive? I suspect they're just flaky people, and flaky people do flaky things. I'm stealing someone else's words here, but perhaps they were dropped as babies? Freud could probably write a long book about them.
As to their motive? I suspect they're just flaky people, and flaky people do flaky things. I'm stealing someone else's words here, but perhaps they were dropped as babies? Freud could probably write a long book about them.
Mar 18th 2012, 11:21 am
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Re: Multiple identities-have you tried it on BE or other forums?
One of the most annoying things for me is people who have no access to info or detail just assuming that a screen name is a multiple identity, often because they dont like their post.
I have a lot of info to hand for checking ID's and sadly I often do checks on new members and old.
There's a whole load of mods doing this right across the forums. Some multi names might last a short while, but most don't because (a) they are too damned stupid to disguise themselves and (b) we are more clever than they think
I have a lot of info to hand for checking ID's and sadly I often do checks on new members and old.
There's a whole load of mods doing this right across the forums. Some multi names might last a short while, but most don't because (a) they are too damned stupid to disguise themselves and (b) we are more clever than they think
